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Note 12 - Retirement Plans
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block]
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RETIREMENT PLANS:
 
Defined Contribution Plan
 
The Company has a defined contribution retirement plan that covers substantially all of its employees and provides for a Company match of up to
50%
of the
first
6%
of employee contributions to the plan, subject to certain limitations. The defined contribution retirement plan offers
24
investment options.
 
Defined Benefit Plans
 
The Company has
two
noncontributory defined benefit plans. Effective
2001,
both plans were frozen and participants were fully vested in their accrued benefits as of the date each plan was frozen.
No
additional participants can be added to the plans and
no
additional service can be earned by participants subsequent to the date the plans were frozen. The funding policy for
both of these plans is based on current plan costs plus amortization of the unfunded plan liability. All current employees covered by these plans are now covered by the defined contribution retirement plan.
 
As of
December
 
31,
2017
and
2016,
the Company had recorded, in accordance with the actuarial valuations, an accrued pension liability of
$1.7
 million and
$1.9
 million, respectively, in Other long-term liabilities and an unrecognized actuarial loss, net of tax, of
$1.4
 million and
$1.5
 million, respectively, in Accumulated other comprehensive loss. Additionally, as of
December 
31,
2017
and
2016,
the projected and accumulated benefit obligation was
$6.6
 million and
$6.5
 million, respectively, and the fair value of plan assets was
$4.9
 million and
$4.6
 million, respectively.
 
The ne
t periodic benefit cost for the years ended
December 
31,
2017,
2016
and
2015
was approximately
$0,
$0.4
 million and
$0.4
 million, respectively. The weighted-average discount rates used to measure the projected benefit obligation were
3.36%
and
3.74%
as of
December 
31,
2017
and
2016,
respectively.
 
The plan assets are invested in
pooled separate accounts stated at fair value based on the daily net asset value of the account and are therefore
not
categorized in the fair value hierarchy. The expected weighted-average long-term rate of return on plan assets was
7.5%
as of
December 
31,
2017
and
2016.
 
Non-qualified Retirement Savings Plan
 
The Company has a
deferred compensation plan that covered officers and selected highly compensated employees until it was frozen in
2016.
The deferred compensation plan generally matched up to
50%
of the
first
$10,000
of officer contributions to the plan and the
first
$5,000
of other selected highly compensated employee contributions, subject to certain limitations. It also provided officers with a Company funded component with a retirement target benefit, until this component of the deferred compensation plan was frozen in
2015.
The retirement target benefit amount was an actuarially estimated amount necessary to provide
35%
of final base pay after a
35
-year career with the Company or
1%
of final base pay per year of service. The actual benefit, however, assumed an investment growth at
8%
per year. Should the investment growth be greater than
8%,
the benefit will be more, but if it is less than
8%,
the amount will be less and the Company does
not
make up any deficiency. As of
December 
31,
2017
and
2016,
$6.2
 million for the deferred compensation plan was recorded in Other assets and Other long-term liabilities.
 
Total expense
for all retirement plans for the years ended
December 
31,
2017,
2016
and
2015
was
$0.9
 million,
$1.4
 million and
$1.5
 million, respectively. Included in these amounts was
$0.1
 million reported in Loss from operations of discontinued operations for the year ended
December 
31,
2015.